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We write to you as the united African asylum seeker community in Israel. We are over 50,000 people, mostly from Eritrea and Sudan.
While most of the world recognizes us as refugees – the State of Israel does not. Instead, it has chosen a policy of imprisonment, deportation and incitement against us.
Next week, over a thousand asylum seekers in Israel will be sent to Holot “open” prison in the remote Negev desert. Many of them are fathers and husbands. Israel's Immigration authorities make daily arbitrary arrests while the Ministry of Interior obstructs renewal of short term visas.
